Federal Medical Malpractice Claims Archives - Page 11 of 18

$11.8M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict For Prison Inmate’s Suicide

September 27, 2016

A federal jury in Pennsylvania recently found that the defendant prison health care provider, the defendant prison physician, and the defendant prison nurses were not only medically negligent but were also deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s medical needs that led to his suicide in his p[...]

Ohio Responsible For Inmate’s $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 23, 2016

Earlier this month, after three hours of jury deliberations in federal court in Ohio, the eight-person federal jury awarded a former Ohio prison inmate $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages after the State of Ohio failed to timely file an answer to the inmate[...]

Former Colorado Neurologist Sued By Four Patients Alleging Misdiagnosis Of MS

September 9, 2016

Four former patients of a former Colorado neurologist have filed federal medical malpractice lawsuits in Colorado against the neurologist, alleging that he misdiagnosed them with having multiple sclerosis (MS) and then negligently treated them for years for MS, which incurable disease they did not[...]

Wisconsin VA Medical Center Sued For Veteran’s Death

September 3, 2016

The family of a Marine veteran filed a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. in federal court on August 29, 2016, alleging that the Tomah, Wisconsin VA Medical Center’s treatment of the 35-year-old veteran of the Marine Corps was negligent, that the veteran’s mental[...]

$6.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Default Judgment For Botched Abortion Leading To Disabled Baby

August 12, 2016

On August 5, 2016, a federal judge in Maryland entered a default judgment in the amount of $6.5 million against the defendant OB and his women’s health clinic after the defendants failed to respond to the plaintiff’s amended complaint. The plaintiff had alleged in her federal Maryland me[...]

Maryland Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed After Prisoner’s Death

June 30, 2016

A federal wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in Maryland following the death of an inmate at a correctional center who was allegedly denied timely and proper medical care while she was suffering severe withdrawal symptoms from drugs, which led to her becoming unresponsive in her cell and later[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Series Of Medical Mistakes Led To Pregnant Woman’s Permanent Coma

June 13, 2016

A Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit filed in federal court in May 2016 alleges that a series of medical mistakes and the failure to provide timely and proper medical care committed by various physicians and hospitals led to a pregnant woman who was suffering from severe hypertension during pregna[...]

$9M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Pregnant Woman In The Hospital

May 23, 2016

Earlier this month, a federal medical malpractice jury in Illinois returned its advisory verdict in favor of the plaintiff after which the federal judge affirmed a $9 million award in a federal medical malpractice case that claimed that a federally-funded hospital, a physician, and a nurse were medi[...]

Colorado Late-Term Abortion Doctor Sued For Medical Negligence

May 4, 2016

A well-known late-term abortion doctor who practices in Boulder, Colorado has been sued by his former patient and her husband who allege that the defendant performed her late-term abortion improperly, leaving a piece of the skull of her aborted fetus inside of her that required surgery and left her [...]

Oregon Inmate Files Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Lost Kidney

April 26, 2016

A 62-year-old Oregon inmate recently filed a federal medical malpractice lawsuit against the State of Oregon and Oregon Department of Corrections physicians alleging that their medical negligence and failure to provide timely and appropriate medical care led to a loss of kidney due to a severe inf[...]

Federal Appellate Court Rules Veteran Injured At VA Medical Center Not Required To Obtain Future Care From The VA

April 20, 2016

In its decision filed on March 4, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (“Appellate Court”) ruled that an injured veteran who was rendered a quadriplegic as a result of medical negligence at a VA Medical Center should not be required to obtain future medical car[...]

ABA Opposes Federal Cap On Medical Malpractice Damages

April 5, 2016

In a letter dated March 21, 2016 from the American Bar Association (“ABA”) addressed to the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary and to the Ranking Member of the Committee, the ABA expressed its opposition to H.R. 4771, the “Help Efficient, Acc[...]

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